Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-10-29
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Threats 10 burn Chinatown have tflghieae'
the Frisco Chinese.
Nearly two hundred kinds OF gold hlllng'
are now made for teeth,
A Kentucky GIRL snapped kernel OF corr
= at her lover and put out bis eye.
! A colored and white campmeeiing has re
7 Gently been held In Ulster county New
) York
! Some vineyardists in the Napa valley Call
fornia are paying As high as ~ day foi
! grape,piekera
A Kentucky blcycler was chased for three
miles recently b. bull which caught sight oil
his red lantern.
. The wheat crop Of Oregon is the largest
ever known. The surplus Of export viii 10
fully 4sa.0Oo tons.
Ono dollar was the price paid for plano at
Reading, Pa, that is said TO have been made
over century ago.
A large number OF small tobacco factories
are being started in Florida to work up the to-
bacco grown in the state,
Another great gas well was struck near
Charleston. W. Va. on Wednesday night. II
iuus kNO iAiiliOu Aftt Pei
An orange leaf grown at Barton, Fla, Is 2
BY II inches In size, and perfect in shape. 1t
is the largest, perhaps, ever grown.
A giantess, who, though ouly II years and
s months old, stands feet high and weighs
21O pounds, is on exhibition Ia Japan.
Mamma" said little Bessie, is there any
/ difference between rod and a rpieF' mo,
my child y "Well, is the golden rod the same
as the Golden Rule!i
A man at Titusyllle, Fla, was out watching
] his melon patch the other night when he heard
rustlipg in bis orange grove near By and fir
| ed, bringing down his mother-in.law.
| Ia Admission, Ala, Wlde.awake negro Il
making $50 month by taking care of th,
| rooms Of young white men, who are too busy OF
proud, or lazy to take care Of them themselves
A religious contemporary asks; "How shall
we get young men to ehurchi" Well, II the
horse-ears are not running, We think pony
phaeton, or dog cart with two horses, driven
tandem, could doit
A viOlln-maker In France makes his instru-
ments at a cost Of 90 cents each, aud Is salts
fed to sell them to the trade at the rate Of
Sll2 each. Many Of hls yiollns hnd their
way TO this country.
A sturgeon Weighing two hundred pounds
was pulled out Of the Rarltan near New
Brunswick, N. j., Monday, II waa SIX feet
SIX inches from nose to tail, with girth Cat
the thickest part Of four feet
A lunAtie who has Just been removed from
s. Thomas to the London, Ont, asylum waa
for week In his cell in the Elgin county jan
in an absolutely nude condition. All efforts
to induce him TO dress were futile.
Dr.. sehlicmann, the archmologisi, writing
from Thebes, declares that Egypt Is no place
Tor eousumptiyes. He Is satisfied that ID,
climate Is injurious TO them, though be for.
merry believed quite the contrary.
An educated Chlnaman told a Los Angelas,
Cal, Tribune reporter that the Chinese arc
forming q vigilance committee 10 drive out
and punish highbInders, who arc aocklng
there in great numbers, and trouble Is eI- |
peeted.
The famous Dismal swamp OF Virginia IL no /
longer used as shelter for runaway slaves, OF |
course, but tits believed TO be the hiding place
OF at least one hundred white men, who 70, /
various reasons, want TO retire 10 private life
for a spell.
A good lady from parish out west was re.
lating the rItualistIc ways OF their new rector
which had hGrassed them deeply; ''Why, be.
fore service he walks around the church in /
hassock and surplus which Only comes down
10 bis knees.n
Mrs. Eagles, an elderly woman Of Camp
bell county, Virginia, expressed the wish
shortly before her death that her gol watch
be buried with her. The wish was carried out,
and within a week the grave vas opened In
he night and the watch stolen.
althy.looking tramp at Bangor asked a
! woman II she would give him a dinner.
she told him II wasn't her dinner hour, but
he could give him substantial lunch. ~
ion't want lunch ! want dinner, replgsd
he htKh-toncd begEar, aud be walked on.
just previous to giving out the hymn, the
minister said; "The storm outside i raglug
o violently that viii ask the sexton 10 10
lind enough TO close the doors and wlndows
: win give US greater sense Of security. The
congregation will now sing I would not live
lway, ask not to stay.in
A clergyman IN Carson, New, recently sen.
local paper notice Of the services at hIa
hurch, In which the subject Of his sermon.
How to Cure HoodlumIsmr was given. II
ppeared in print, however. as allow to Cure
sheumatism,n and the church was packed
is easy enough for preacher to be popular.
VI that 10 necessary Is 10 preach On subjects
hitch people are interested 10.
A lady writes The Naatacsei (Mass) J1.rnal
bat many years ago a small army Of tiny red
nts took possession OF her store cIoset and
smalned until cool weather. Every year /
icy returned. She was advised % try tar
hich she dId, placing large chunk ON n
ish in corner Of the shelf The ants IN, !
nd have never returned. The same piece Of
IT mas STOOD IN the same place for fifteen year.
y ant afraid OF lightning any more. God b
'nds the lightning and God wouldn't hutt \
e; he only sends Tito take away the bad air. y !
he little ones brother, who was Of a very
'actlcal turn Of mind, and WHO has seen q
ees and houses that had been torn M and h
'uised By lightning, smiled nt this declara. b
on BY his sister and remarked: III want va, =
understand that God Is pretty careless 4
metImes.
A physician says that there Is need Of es,e. ~
al care at this season OF warm lav and c,ot n
gus, me neat Of the simme accompanied i
moisture, has produced a Taxed ana dr. I d
lltated condition Of the system, which rcn :,
rs II less able to resist the attacks III i,eas. !,
an Of other seasons Of the year. Nearly 4o "
: cent, Of the typhoid fever 10 Massacbusst,,
ring 1885 occurred in the months of AUGUST d
ptetni,er, and October. 3,
a little 6year-oId granddaughter Of a wo,, h
own New England clergyman. ia dntttins !.
her uncle that the moon was 4
lde OF green cheese, was advised By ths =
flne TO ase rtain for herself. "IIow can az
lndpaFi Get your bible and sec what f. nj
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